eventually . Scott Pruitt , Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) administrator and long - metre climate change skeptic , has let in that we world might have something to do with the change we are seeing in the Earth ’s clime .
appear on Tuesday ’s installment ofFox and Friends , Pruitt told watcher : " With this clime change , we know certain things . We know the climate ’s always change . "
" We know that humans give to it in some direction , " he added .
Pruitt , appointed by Trump last December , is a well - known climate change denier . Under his leadership , the EPA has removedclimate modification datafrom its website , deleted the word"science"from its mission statement , and dismissedseveral scientistsfrom its scientific advisory plank .
Pruitt himself has enounce scientific discipline shouldn’t"dictate policy " , calling journalists"opportunistic " and " misplaced"for drawing connection between this summertime ’s hurricanes and rising sea temperatures .
At least his acknowledgment that human activity is jolly influencing our environment is a step in the right direction – even if it ’s a very tiny baby step .
" [ W]hat we do n’t know is , are we in a position where it is an experiential threat . Is it unsustainable with obedience to what we see presently ? " he continued .
" rent ’s have a disputation about that . play scientists in . cherry-red team scientists . Blue squad scientist . Have a discussion about the grandness of this issue . "
It ’s not the first meter Pruitt has suggest a " red squad - gentle team " debate . In June , he nominate a"back - and - forth critique"of clime change studies , which is rather knotty . Scientific debate is commonly a salutary thing but when it comes to climate modification , we are far beyond this point .
clime modification is theconsensus . A whopping97 percentof composition on the subject harmonize it ’s happening . Those remaining 3 percent ? A recent reviewfound they were all flawed . Not one could be replicated .
As Pruitt said , " The American hoi polloi deserve that type of objective guileless word . ”
A sentiment we could n’t concord with more . Still , this is an administration that catch by on"alternative facts"and discrediting experts . Putting deniers on equal foothold with respected scientists believably is n’t the serious direction to assure an " documentary transparent discussion " .
